2022-2023 Course Catalog

ENGC 0800 Fundamentals of Writing

This course focuses on the skills needed to produce paragraphs and short essays. During the semester, students 1) read and critically evaluate a variety of texts; 2) understand the planning and writing process for paragraphs and short essay writing; 3) communicate clear ideas, developing paragraphs with main points, supporting details, and logically sequenced sentences; 4) develop conventional grammatical sentence structure, punctuation, and spelling; 5) practice strategies to develop vocabulary and word usage skills; 6) create documents using word processing software. Grading options are A-F or Pass/No Credit.  A grade of Pass/C or better is required to register for ENGC 0900.

Credits

4 cr

Prerequisite

Placement into ENGC 0800 and eligible for READ 0860 or a Pass/C or higher in EAP 0760 and eligible for READ 0860

Offered

Fall, Spring